"Chris Jenkinson" <chris(a)starglade.org> wrote in
message news:43E50127.4090702@starglade.org...
The Cunctator wrote:
Can you explain what you mean by "database
lock"? Or point me to a
reference? I'm happy to RTFM.
Basically where an admin does something which means that everything else
gets put on hold until the "something" is completed. For example, deleting
a page with a large history (such as when Ed Poor deleted AFD).
IIRC this also happened when SnowSpinner "deprecated" {{if}} by replacing
the functional (but horrible, don't get the idea I fail to agree with that
:-) code with a notice saying that this template had been deprecated and
should be replaced.
I recall reports that it took about 15 minutes to recover, but I can't
remember whether this was for the DB lock, or for all uses to be replaced. I
do know it was surprisingly fast, even for those of us who had been
expressing scepticism that any one template could hold the DB to ransom :-)
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]